Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — FUGITIVE IS KILLED. [ARTICLE]

FUGITIVE IS KILLED.

A MINNESOTA SHERIFF BRINGS DOWN HIS MAN. Cfficer Was Too Quick for Daughters, Who Would Have Killed Him—Washington Man Takes Terrible Revenge for Breaking Up of His Home. Deputy Sheriff Freese of Cass County, Minn., and another deputy named Fullerton recently brought into Bemidji from Lakeport the dead body of Nelson Daughters, who was shot by Fullerton. Daughters was a fugitive from justice, and had taken to the woods at Lakeport. Deputy Fullerton came on him unexpectedly, and demanded that he surrender. Daughters, iu reply, pulled up his rifle and drew a bead on Fullerton, but the latter was too quick for him and shot him through the body. The train, coming along at the lime, he was carried to the station. He was put aboard in hopes that his life might be saved, but he died on the train. END? THREE LIVES. Washington Man Kills His Wife and Brother and Commits Suicide. At Walla Walla, Wash., O. B. Ryland killed his wife and his brother, Grant, and then committed suicide. He arrived there from Pomona, Wash., in search of his wife, who had deserted him, and had been living with her mother and Grant Ryland. He first shot his brother. Then he chased his wife into a vacant lot and shot her in the back. She fought desperately, but after becoming exhausted she fell and the infuriated husband shot her in the face. He then lay down beside his wife and shot himself, blowing the top of his head off. AMERICANS REPORTED KILLED. Thought to l ave Been Murdered by o Yrqui Indians. The Yaqui Indians continue their depredations in Sonora, Mexico, and roving bands are now r scattered through the mountains along the upper Yaqui river. Americans have begun to suffer at the hands of the savages and if reports be true seven men from New York were murdered Recently in the Sahuaripa district. Many other prospectors have been driven out and their mines wrecked. Hunting for Buried Treasure. For several days H. B. Merrill has been digging for buried treasure in an old orchard on his farm, seven miles south of Painesville, Ohio. While making some repairs to the roof of his farm house he found hidden under the rafters a leather pocketbook containing a paper stating that a chest containing $4,500 in silver was buried in the orchard. Spain's Cuban Debt. The decision by the Spanish cabinet that the interest on the Cuban bonds must be paid by the Cuban Government is a virtual announcement that Spain will not pay the interest, and ■ that the bonds are valueless. The United States refuses to recognize any responsibility in the matter.

Stock Yards Fire. Several persons were injured and property valued at $275,000 was destroyed in a fire which swept over a large area of the Union stock yards in Chicago. The stock yards hospital, Dexter Park pavilion, several horse sheds and two residences were destroyed, and twenty horses perished in the flames. Carried Away by a Kite. Charles, the 7-year-old son of Andrew Lewis of Mount Morris, N. Y., while flying a giant kite was carried over the edge of a cliff, the top of his father’s farm house and a high stone wall by a fierce northern gale catching the kite just as it mounted to the end of the rope Marriage License Fee SI,OOO. The Chickasaw Legislature, in session at Tishomingo, I. T., passed a bill raising the fee for marriage licenses from SSO to SI,OOO. The measure is aimed at white men who would marry into the tribe to profit by the annuities and lease money drawn by women Chickasaws. Sheep Camp Maided. Masked men attacked the sheep camp of the Warren Live Stock Company, twenty-five miles northwest of Sterling, Colo., beating the herder, a young man named Crain, nearly to death, shooting about 100 sheep and scattering 1,500 more. Fire Cannon Into a Train. The contents of a cannon fired during a soldiers’ reunion at Ceredo, W. Va., passed through a coach of a Huntington and Big Sandy train. More than a dozen persons were injured by flying missiles and broken glass. Woman Whips a Leopard. Locked in an iron cage, Mlle. Morrelli fought with an enraged leopard at the Philadelphia exposition grounds. The little French woman conquered, but now lies in the University hospital with severe wounds in her left arm and breast. New Leather Concern. The organization of the American Hide and Leather Company has been completed in New York. The properties of the several constituent companies have passed into the control of the new company, which will hereafter operate them. Girl Is Burned to Death. At Terre Hante, Ind., Miss Laura Boldt, 22 years old, was burned to death by the explosion «of a gasoline stove. All her clothes, even to her shoes, and most of her flesh, were burned off. Will Meet in Chicago. The supreme lodge of the Knights of Pythias, in session at Indianapolis, elected Louis Ingwerson of New York supreme chancellor. The supreme body will meet in Chicago next year. Molten Metal Explodes. By the explosion of molten metal at Schoenberger’s steel works at Pittsburg, four men were dangerously-injured. The explosion was caused by the overturning of a ladle of hot metal. Thirty Persons Injured. An electric car filled with passengers and running at a high rate of speed, jumped the track at Prince’s curve, one mile from Carthage, Mo., over on its top. Twenty persons were injured. Captain Dreyfus Is pardoned. The council of ministers! at Paris has decided to pardon Dreyfuk in principle. The pardon will take effect in a few uAys* y ’

GLASS PLANTS IN TRUST. Ibe American Company Now in Con* » trol in Indiana. The American Window Glass Company tas come into control of the leading wiudow glass plants in the Indiana gas belt. Deeds of the Elwood Window Glass Company, the Indiana Window Glass Company of Pendleton, the Clyde Window Glass Company of Frankton.'the Victor Window Glass Company, and the Anderson Window Glass Company of Anderson and the Frankton Window Glass Company’s property have been recorded in favor of American Window Glass Company. The amount paid for the Elwood Window Glass Company was $13,000; the Indiana Window Glass Company, $22,500; the Clyde Window Glass Company, $22,500; the Victor Window Glass Company, $15,000; the Anderson Window Glass Company, $25,000, and the Frankton Window Glass Company, .$5,050. These values are but nominal, as the assessed value of the Victor plant is $55,000, and the Anderson $115,000. The other plants are worth more than the prices named. CHICAGOAN BADLY WOUNDED. G. L. Russell of Hammond Company Stabbed at Birmingham, Ala. George L. Russell of Chicago, traveling auditor of the Hammond Packing Company, lies at his room in the Morris Hotel, Birmingham, Ala., seriously wounded from stabs inflicted by a knife in the hands of W. L. Lockhard, local manager of the company. Russell has been there for several days checking up books in Lockhard’s office. It is said he found the accounts correct, but he and Lockhard became involved in a quarrel. Lockhard, it is said, was seen to take some money from the cash drawer, and Russell asked him whose money it was. Lockhard replied that it was his own, and if he thought it was the company’s he could check up his cash accounts and ascertain. Lockhard became offended at what he regarded as Russell’s meddlesome course, and a quarrel and fight resulted. BRIDGE GAVE WAY. Four Dread and Three Injured at Windom, Minn. Engineer Carl Rasmussen, Fireman F. E. Roberts and an unknown man were buried under three engines, twenty freight cars and much bridge wreckage in the Des Moines river at Windom, Minn. A double and a single headed train went on the bridge at the same time and broke down a span. Fireman Stratton was removed alive, but died a few hours later. Engineer C. P. Yeomans, Fireman Fews and Fireman George Merrills were injured. - hot Hie Father’s Assailant. A shooting occurred at Greenfield, Ohio. Hervey Greaves, colored, an employe at a livery stable, owed a small bill at Dye’s restaurant and the proprietor called for his money. A quarrel followed, when Greaves knocked Dye down. Vai Dye, son of the restaurateur, borrowed a revolver and shot Greaves, making a wound which the doctors pronounce fatal. tadler Confirmed as Governor. The Nevada Supreme Court has rendered k decision in the governorship contest. By the decision Reinhold Sadler, the silverite, wins the case by sixty plurality, an increase of forty votes over the original count. Three Killed by a Train. While Jasper Beebe, his son, a daughter and two grandchildren were crossing the railroad tracks four miles east of Albia, lowa, a passenger train crashed into their vehicle. Three were killed and one of the children was fatally injured.

Deed of a Jealous Wife. At Port Huron, Mich., Mrs. Judson Harrendeen fired three shots at her husband from a revolver and then killed herself with a shot in the head. Harrendeen may recover. The woman’s jealousy caused the tragedy. Trains Collide Near Kansas City. A passenger train, north bound on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, collided with a freight train fifteen miles southeast of Kansas City. Four persons were killed and four others more or less seriously injured. Drowning of a Chicago Man. Al Robinson, formerly bookkeeper of the Chicago Gas Light Company, was drowned on way out of the mountains of Wyoming, where he had been fishing and hunting during the past summer. Hundreds Are Killed. • There was a disastrous earthquake at Aidin, Asia Minor. Hundreds of persons were killed in the Valley of the Mender. MARKET QUOTATIONS. Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $7.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice, $3.00 to $1.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c to 75c; corn, No. 2,34 cto 35c; oats, No. 2,22 c to 24c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c; butter, choice creamery, 22c to 23c; eggs, fresh, 15c to 17c; potatoes, choice, 30c to 40c per bushel. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $6.25; hogs, choice light, $2.75 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $3.25 ‘to $4.25; wheat. No. 2 red, 67c to 69c; corn, No. 2 white, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.25 to $6.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 72c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2,, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25: hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to S4.UO; wheat, No. 2,70 cto 71c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats. No. 2 mixed, 25c to 26c; rye, No. 2,62 cto 63c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25: hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2,71 cto 72c; corn, No. -2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye, 59c to 61c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 71c to 72c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, iNo. 2,58 c to 60e; clover seed, $5.15 to $5.20. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 69c to 71c; com, No. 3,31 cto 33c; oats. No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 1,58 cto 59c; barley, No. 2,45 cto 47c; pork, mesa, SB.OO to $8.50. Buffalo—Cattle, good shipping steers* $3.00 to $6.50; hogs, common to choke, $3.25 to $5.00; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $4.50 to $6.09. New York-Cattle, $3.25 to $6.5* hogs, $3.00 to $5285; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 76c to 77c; corn. No. 2, 89c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 31c; ! butter, creamery, 18c to 24c; eggs, werttrn, IS*? to 200.